Incomplete record. This archive holds 54 of the 120 games played; 66 are missing.
Vitaly Tseshkovsky won the fifteenth Chigorin Memorial on 10½/15, half a point ahead of Lev Polugaevsky. Anatoly Vaisser finished third with 9½. Sixteen players met in a single round-robin.
The surviving scores
The archive contains 54 of the 120 played-game records. Sixty-six scores are unavailable in our source. Fifty-three records begin at the initial position; Espig–Lukov survives as an eight-ply endgame fragment. Tseshkovsky–Zarubin stops before the printed final move, 31.Nc7.
The original tournament publication resolves two errors: the opponent in one Tseshkovsky loss was Vaisser, and Tseshkovsky–Pribyl was drawn. All recorded moves are preserved.
Recorded rounds and dates
The source gives Dvoirys two games in round 4, Espig two in round 9 and Vaisser two in round 15, each pair on the same recorded date. Those labels are retained; they do not establish the actual tournament schedule.
Final standings
The standings below are the historical final result. Only 54 of the 120 games played survive in our source; the remaining 66 are lost and appear as · in the cross table.
| # | Player | Score | Record | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tseshkovsky, Vitaly | 10½/15 | +8 -2 =5 | games |
| 2 | Polugaevsky, Lev | 10/15 | +7 -2 =6 | games |
| 3 | Vaisser, Anatoli | 9½/15 | +7 -3 =5 | games |
| =4 | Gufeld, Eduard | 9/15 | +4 -1 =10 | games |
| =4 | Pinter, Jozsef | 9/15 | +4 -1 =10 | games |
| =6 | Panchenko, Alexander N | 8½/15 | +5 -3 =7 | games |
| =6 | Kharitonov, Andrei Y | 8½/15 | +4 -2 =9 | games |
| 8 | Dvoirys, Semen I | 8/15 | +5 -4 =6 | games |
| =9 | Pribyl, Josef | 7½/15 | +3 -3 =9 | games |
| =9 | Espig, Lutz | 7½/15 | +3 -3 =9 | games |
| 11 | Westerinen, Heikki MJ | 7/15 | +4 -5 =6 | games |
| 12 | Zarubin, Pavel | 6½/15 | +4 -6 =5 | games |
| =13 | Lukov, Valentin | 6/15 | +3 -6 =6 | games |
| =13 | Zeitlein, Michael | 6/15 | +1 -4 =10 | games |
| 15 | Lengyel, Levente | 4½/15 | +0 -6 =9 | games |
| 16 | Stefanov, Parik | 2/15 | +1 -12 =2 | games |
Cross Table
| Rank | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tseshkovsky, Vitaly | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | · | |
| 2 | Polugaevsky, Lev | 0 | 1 | 1 | · | 1 | ½ | 0 | · | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | · | · | ½ | |
| 3 | Vaisser, Anatoli | 1 | 0 | · | 0 | · | · | 0 | 1 | · | 1 | 1 | · | · | 1 | 1 | |
| 4 | Gufeld, Eduard | ½ | 0 | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | ½ | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | |
| 5 | Pinter, Jozsef | ½ | · | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | ½ | ½ | · | · | · | · | · | · | |
| 6 | Panchenko, Alexander N | 0 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | ½ | 1 | · | · | 1 | · | |
| 7 | Kharitonov, Andrei Y | 1 | ½ | · | · | 0 | · | · | · | ½ | 0 | · | · | ½ | · | · | |
| 8 | Dvoirys, Semen I | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | 0 | · | · | · | · | |
| 9 | Pribyl, Josef | ½ | · | 0 | · | ½ | · | · | · | ½ | · | 0 | · | · | · | · | |
| 10 | Espig, Lutz | 0 | ½ | · | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | · | ½ | 1 | |
| 11 | Westerinen, Heikki MJ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | · | ½ | 1 | · | · | 0 | · | 1 | · | · | · | |
| 12 | Zarubin, Pavel | 0 | 0 | 0 | · | · | 0 | · | 1 | 1 | 0 | · | · | · | 1 | · | |
| 13 | Lukov, Valentin | 0 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ½ | 0 | · | · | · | · | |
| 14 | Zeitlein, Michael | · | · | · | · | · | · | ½ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ½ | · | |
| 15 | Lengyel, Levente | · | · | 0 | · | · | 0 | · | · | · | ½ | · | 0 | · | ½ | · | |
| 16 | Stefanov, Parik | · | ½ | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0 | · | · | · | · | · |
Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player. · = game played but lost (not preserved in our source).